Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 17

Dummling answered: ‘I have only cinder-cake and sour beer; if that pleases you, we will sit down and eat.’

Who acts: Dummling, I, that, we · What happens: answer, have, please, sit down, eat · To what, where: cinder cake, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, I, that, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dummling	Dummling	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	ccomp
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 cake	advmod
8	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cake	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 cinder	punct
10	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 beer	cc
12	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beer	amod
13	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cake	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 pleases	punct
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 pleases	mark
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 pleases	nsubj
17	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 answered	parataxis
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 pleases	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 sit	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	aux
22	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pleases	conj
23	down	down	ADP	_	22 sit	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Dummling		tree rules
2	have	present	I	cinder cake and sour beer	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	please a condition, not said to happen	present	that	you	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
4	sit down	future	we		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	present	we not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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